Re: [Numpy-discussion] the making of the NumPy roadmap

2018-12-09 Thread Charles R Harris
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 10:24 PM Ralf Gommers wrote: > Hi all, > > A little while ago I wrote a blog post about the history of us > constructing the roadmap we currently have: > https://rgommers.github.io/2018/10/the-making-of-the-numpy-roadmap/. > There was a request to post it to this list, whic

[Numpy-discussion] align `choices` and `sample` with Python `random` module

2018-12-09 Thread Alan Isaac
I believe this was proposed in the past to little enthusiasm, with the response, "you're using a library; learn its functions". Nevertheless, given the addition of `choices` to the Python random module in 3.6, it would be nice to have the *same name* for parallel functionality in numpy.random. A